Thornton v. Buchmann’s Empirical Analysis
392 F.2d 870 · 1968
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Lenard v. Argento (1983), Jones v. Cannon (1999)
20 federal appellate · 3 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Henry v. United States · 28 Wis. 2d 590 - State Ex Rel. White v. Simpson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would prevent the use of [the plaintiff's] statements in a criminal trial if hereafter commenced, but ... has no significance in the present [§ 1983] case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Hutchens
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.